"A Sign unto You"
On this Thursday morning, I found three jet planes flying high in the winter sky with a white, long, and shining contrail, respectively: two intersecting a vista toward Mt. Fuji and one just high above. Indeed, a conductor rod can be sometimes a nice measure.
SECTION I: JAPANESE OBAMAS This Week
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
The Japanese space exploration institute has proved that the moon is closer to the perfect circle than the earth is.
US Science magazine also presents the latest result from JAXA's survey on the moon, using its space craft SELENE flying around the moon now (until this summer).
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Specifically SELENE observed the moon and reported the strictest data ever obtained, since it measured 6.77 million points on the surface of the moon while NASA had done measurement against only 0.27 million points.
Polar radius of the moon:
......1735.66km (1078.7 miles)
Equatorial radius of the moon:
......1738.64km (1080.6 miles)
Flattening of the moon:
(1738.64 - 1735.66)/ 1738.64 = 0.0017
As the flattening of the earth is 0.0034, the moon is twice closer to a perfect circle than the earth is.
This is significant, sine mankind has been watching an almost perfect circle every night in the sky for millions of years, which must have furthered intellectual and spiritual development of mankind. There is something perfect in this universe…at least up in the sky….,which is a miracle, definitely.
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/02/20090213_kaguya_j.html
(The distance from the earth to the moon is 100 times longer than the diameter of the moon.
Interestingly, the common center of mass of the earth and moon system is 1707km below the surface of the earth, namely under the ground on which we stand.)
Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), University of Tokyo
The academic research center developed a special technique to visualize the inside of a volcano through cosmic-ray observations.
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We have developed a novel radiographic imaging method to survey the inhomogeneous structure of the crust. As an example, we performed measurements at Mt. Asama volcano, and studied the feasibility of using an azimuthally isotropic flux of cosmic ray muons in the energy range up to a few TeV. The principle of the technique is that by measuring muon absorption along different nearly horizontal paths through a solid body, one can deduce the density distribution in the interior of the object….
http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/yaoki/2007EPSL.pdf
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By applying this method to the recent eruption of Mt. Asama, the researchers have found the eruption was not caused by magma coming up to the surface of the mountain. But it was hydrovolcanic explosion caused by pressed and heated vapor.
So, the situation is not dangerous for people living around Mt. Asama which is close to the Kanto Plain where the Tokyo Metropolitan Area is situated with 30 million citizens.
Yet, I can call it a kind of miracle, since I actually went out and checked Mt. Asama a week ago.
SECTION II: Emergency Rocket Booster for Air Plane
Every jet liner must be equipped with rocket boosters.
When a jet plane looses power and starts to fall to the ground, a few seconds before the crash with the ground the rocket boosters will be ignited to give a thrust upward, so that a falling plane would be heaved up to glide and land softly as much as possible.
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So, there may be three influential persons viewing the EEE Reporter blog, say, from Washington D.C., Rome, and Jerusalem, Oh, My Dear!
(Or from Paris, My Baby!……Or de Paris, mon bebe!
http://www.geocities.jp/ssiq150/akogarenomeikyoku/a025_konosubarasikisekai_01.html )
Luk 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Luk 2:12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Luk 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Luk 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.